Napoleon's comeback, like a bolt from the blue, shocked European countries and also shocked the anti-French alliance meeting in Vienna. They decided to form the seventh anti-French alliance immediately. Members of the alliance include Britain, Russia, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries. * * * Assemble 700,000 troops and prepare to attack Paris. However, Napoleon only incorporated 6.5438+0.8 million troops in two months, which was far from the strength. Napoleon decided to divide and rule before the allies met.
12 June, Napoleon led 125000 troops into Belgium. On June 16, Napoleon commanded the French army and defeated the Prussian army led by Brewer in Lini village. However, due to the slow progress of his men, he failed to destroy the Pu Jun army, and 80,000 Pujun troops fled without a trace. 17, Napoleon mistakenly let the army rest for a day, and decided to launch a decisive battle with the British-Dutch Coalition forces under the command of British Marshal Wellington in Waterloo (20 kilometers south of Brussels) on 18. The British army under Wellington had already built strong fortifications, waiting for Napoleon.
/kloc-in the early morning of 0/8, it rained cats and dogs, and the battlefield was muddy, so the artillery and cavalry could not start. It was not until noon that the world-famous Waterloo War started. At the beginning of the battle, the two sides bombarded each other with artillery, and the cavalry and infantry were abbreviated, and the battle was extremely fierce. The French army stormed again and again and broke through the British defense line many times, but failed to expand the results because of insufficient troops. Just when the British army was unable to support, Brewer led 30,000 Pujun troops to come to support, and the situation took a turn for the worse. Napoleon put the last reserve into battle, but he still failed to turn the tide. Under the general attack of Britain, Holland and Pu Jun, the French army finally collapsed. Napoleon fled back to Paris, only 65438+100000 defeated. On the 22nd, he was forced to abdicate for the second time with the intervention of powerful allies. As a result, he was exiled to the Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he was imprisoned and died.
The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's last battle. His failure completely ended Napoleon's era and turned a new page in European history. Later, people regarded "Waterloo" as a synonym for ultimate failure.
This is a stone tablet on the top of Lion Mountain in Waterloo, engraved with the deployment map of both sides on the morning of June 18 18, 2005. The blue side represents Napoleon's 72,000 troops, and the other side is Wellington's 68,000 allies (including British, Dutch, Belgian and German troops).